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Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

" business, and I think that, yes, there were a lot of discussions. Some of them were flippant, some of them were very serious. But I think that--again, maybe I'm being much too subjective, and I hope I'm not attributing to others what I myself felt and still

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/23/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)

s t hope th e y w e r e so u n d a s le e p . I h a d a s k e d M a rily n to g e t w ith H e le n , a n d ch o o se a b o u t fo u r of m y r e v e n in g d r e s s e s a n d s u g g e s t th a t J e w e l a n d B e t t ^ t r y th em o n , a n d

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Manila Conference, 10/15/1966, Volume 4, Tab 47," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

situation in Vietnam is better than he expected it to be. Military preparations are progressing in an entirely satisfactory way. Progress in pacification is less than he had hoped. More emphasis ne eds to be placed on pacification programs. The pacification

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/10/1965 (Saturday) (Item)

a lo n g b u i l d u p of p h r a s e s lik e " J a c k of a l l t r a d e s " a n d " v a l e t to th e P r e s i d e n t " h a s r e s u l t e d i n th is d e c i s i o n . I hope it w i l l n o t h a p p e n , a n d y e t I s e e in th e m b o th

Folder, "Ex FG 640 [CORREGIDOR BATAAN MEMORIAL COMMISSION]," WHCF FG, Box 377 (Item)

of a documentary film commemorating the story of Bataan and Corregidor as was called for by legislation; but it is hoped that the Pacific War Documentary Film will be historically accurate and will do justice to both the immensity of the forces engaged

Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

were doing this were, with the exception of some of the employees who had been in these divisions for a long period of time, highly trained professional or hoping to be professional people, with masters degrees and doctorates. The range was, as I

Folder, "Greece - Vol. 3, 8/67-2/68 [5 of 5]," Country Files, NSF, Box 127 [1 of 2] (Item)

- !ref?rernh.~m on a new cons~imarks. when a ne_w foreign ple of this country, like the ;tutton will be c?ndu~ted m envoy presents his creden .Executive and Congress, hope : 1968. It was the first time the tials. . I to see this happen," the Pres

Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

but opportunity for improvement is everywhere, such as saving of lives on the highway. We're experiencing fifty-odd thousand casualties each year on the highway. Many people, and I hope they're right, think this is something that can be abated and the trend

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of his life, that it's much better to talk about something you've done than to talk about something you're going to do, hope to do. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

-- I -- 7 certain number of counties, and a county chairman, and of course all hope to have even a precinct organization where they have representatives from each of the precincts. So I took on the responsibility of attempting to organize my

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to the time we went to Los Angeles. tion was in July, and we went out in June. So it The conven- So it must have been in June. M: He didn't talk about it among the staff members? G: No. He M: We just quietly went on our way, thinking and hoping

Oral history transcript, James W. Gulick, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

service. ObViously, both management and labor desire individual benefits they hope to gain from the American Merchant Marine. The nation, of course, is concerned primarily with a high degree of steady-state service that can be relied upon, whether

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. H: I think he spent one year in some college. [Kenyon]. F: Was he sort of a doctrinaire anti-U.S. type, or had he arrived at this on Vietnam? H: What was your feeling on this? Well, this is just a personal feeling--I hope I'm wrong. I really

Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Washington and myself went over there and presented bronze plaques and keys to the city especially designed for Mrs. Johnson and himself. I believe they are very handsome plaques, and I hope they'll be in the Library because they were especially designed wi

Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

publicizing did you hope to get out of the conference? R: The president and, I think, Mrs. Johnson had great vision. were also realists. action. They So they were concerned, as we were, about They were very people-minded, action-minded, and they were

Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

was a success? R: Or is a success? I would say that it's on its way--as we are building now down to eighteen months of it almost--it's on its way to proving many of the things that we have hoped, that Senator Kennedy had hoped would happen. done as much as we

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

went--I hope it's still there, but I'm sure it isn't--was a very swanky place. Bohemian Club. It was the Do you know whether they still have that? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, or are they usually just disagreements of minor degrees? S: Sometimes they are major policy differences. M: Those are the kind that the President-- S: Right. We would never, I hope, take an issue to the President where the dif- ferences were of a relatively

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, that any political considerations would be injected in the process at some other point, probably at his point of review. He told me that he desired to pull together all of the activities relating to appointments into a single office, and that he hoped

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the draft legislation. In the end VISTA, or domestic peace corps, was one section in Title VI of the anti-poverty law. B; Were these men acting on their own in getting you to draw up this title just in the hopes that it could be included or--? P; No. I

Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

really in bad shape. delivery messenger, and of course the Congressman was trying to get people jobs. Everybody was trying to get people back to work. was quite an experience, which I hope will never occur again. F: \Vhen did Maury Maverick become

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

hoped 'he wouldn't do it, but I would stand up [for him]. said he would let me know. We talked a while. He Of course, he didn't let me know; 'he had Walter Jenkins call me and let me know. T'hat meant IIstand up and let t'hem pour it on you. II

Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

" effect that they could do no wrong. And even Jackie's recent marriage, these rationalizations that have been appearing in magazines. are the darndest things I've ever read, some of them. They I hope history will recognize Mrs. Johnson for all of her

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

tried to be helpful when I could. G: But it was useful for her to understand that with all the requests that were coming in, that she had to have some sort of system to try to be responsive to what the people wanted and yet not to give them false hopes

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, if not weeks, that the U.S. has been evenhanded, or trying to be evenhanded in this, in hope of a resolution before war. 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

-type helicopters that we used. For all these reasons, the Viet Cong had some advantages in being able to detect the possibility at least that we intended to use helicopters in a heliborne raid. We had hoped that that might not be true, but the noise

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XIX -- 22 R: You know, you had to discuss Quemoy and Matsu. It broadened my perspectives some, and I hope it broadened LBJ's perspectives some, but if the trip had not taken place, world history would have not have

Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a little bit and what his views were and what he was hoping to achieve. S: Well, I don't remember the year, but it was sometime between 1952 and 1956--it was while I was chairman of the Executive Committee--we put on the ballot approval or disapproval

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. But you can't hope to overcome poverty if you don't give the people who are poor not only economic help but political help and--how shall I say?--a sense of personal pride in themselves. You have to deal with a human being across the board, and in our

Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in 1960 ; and that furthermore, and I did say this, that I didn't think that he, Mr . Rayburn, or Mr . Johnson had a prayer, that Kennedy was going to win ; and that I just hoped Mr . Rayburn would not be--embarrassed was not the word--humiliated by his

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the staff and you set the agenda. When I came to the commission, I had in mind several improvements I hoped, before I left office, to put into effect in the regulation and the operations of the two industries. One of them was to get a handle on producer

Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. And when it was over, I went up and said hello, and he turned to me and said, "I understand you arranged all this." And I said, "Well, I helped a bit." He turned to Jack Valenti and said, "I want one of these at every stop." (Laughter) F: I hope he didn't

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, if not weeks, that the U.S. has been evenhanded, or trying to be evenhanded in this, in hope of a resolution before war. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Folder, "The President's file for Korea, Vietnam (Briefings)," Files of Walt Rostow, NSF, Box 10 (Item)

to try lo char~~terlze their outcome one way or another. Obviously we hope that they will succeed. Q. Would the US favo1· inviting the Nol·th Ko~eans to participate in the Security Council proceedings? Do wo demand that they first release.the crew

Folder, "Marsh, Charles E. - Special writings [1940-1946]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 10 (Item)

breakdowns. And now, with the mrld faei~ peace, who should belieV'81 that there can be any return to tbSl.t freshness am hope·:ful pleasure which the dawn ot capitalism brought to an idle agrarian people e. t the end of the pre-capital istie order? Who may

Folder, "1/31/1968 President's Remarks to National Association of Attorneys General," Statements Files, Box 264 (Item)

and local grants Act, government ·to help strengthen . I hope t'he Piouse will pa!s- . it suofi. 6. As you know, we have called this constructive cooperation a -- creative Federalism, emphasis on the word and local governments a new